Plain Tales from the Hills 34 - By Word Of Mouth

In which a solitary Civil Surgeon, having withdrawn from society with his beloved wife, faces the cruel onset of typhoid and the shattering loss that follows, prompting a melancholic journey into the hills that stirs strange and spectral tidings. The quiet life of the station is irrevocably altered as duty summons him far from home into the grim theatres of epidemic, where the boundary between life and death is as delicate as a whispered message on the wind.